Friday Ephemera
The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders. || Well, it must’ve rattled loose. || At last, a robotic bartender. || Bird feeder. || I bring you art. || Babe detected. || His back-yard view is better than yours. || You can’t go far wrong with accelerated penguins. || In fairness, it was his first attempt. || Just wind and frozen sand. || Phantom nipples. || Near miss detected. || Now you do it. I’ll start the clock. || Incoming. || Satisfied customer. || Strange dog. || Dentist’s magic hat. || When the day just keeps getting worse. || You want one and you know it. || He has a theory, ladies. || The tardigrade’s toes (and tiny things digesting other tiny things). || And finally, for the sleepy kiddies, there are goblins lurking under the bed.
Oh, and a reminder that I now have a Gettr account.
My Latin is a little rusty.
But not your gladius, I trust.
I seem to have misplaced my gladius. But I’ve still got the sheath it came in.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m summoning a constable.
My Latin sucks but my google works…
“Timidus ante mortem millies moritur, sed fortis gustus mortis semel.”
After all, it’s about time somebody said it. I was getting angsty.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m summoning a constable.
What sort of spell does one use?
What sort of spell does one use?
Evocation, verbal component. Cannot be cast during combat. Constable may appear anywhere between the next round and never (see dice roll chart).
It’s a trash spell and the reason why all other summons were created in the school of Conjuration.
Evocation, verbal component. Cannot be cast during combat. Constable may appear anywhere between the next round and never (see dice roll chart).
In light of recent news, I’m not sure if constables are lawful good or chaotic evil. (And with that I exhaust my knowledge of Dungeons and Dragons.)
An earlier thread mentioned the awful Kingsmen movie.
While we’re on the topic of bad movies, I finally saw Alphaville. (A number of intellectuals had spoken very highly of it.) Was not impressed.
I finally saw Alphaville
Conclusion: Intellectuals can have very odd criteria for excellence.
But then, I once saw a very short “experimental” film made by several science fiction writers (Delany, Disch, and others) which consisted of many short cuts of various types (zoom-in, zoom-out, pan, facial closeup, etc) assembled in random order. The filmmakers claimed to be surprised that the result was extremely disturbing. I think any normal person could have told them that there was nothing surprising about that at all.
“…a lot of people call themselves “conservative” yet know little about what that might mean…”
And then there are the conservatives who only give lip service to conservative ideas.
Example: Remember Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy? “In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.”
I have known conservatives and libertarians who endorsed that Law but who found “reasons” to oppose politicians who actually attempted to trim back the bureaucracy and the power of the Deep State.